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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Imaginative minds. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608630213 Online version: Imaginative minds. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)609357948 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ilona Roth; British Academy. |
ISBN: | 9780197264195 0197264190 |
OCLC Number: | 155678788 |
Notes: | Collection of essays from a two-day symposium organized by the British Academy, held April 30-May 1, 2004. |
Description: | xvii, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Imaginative minds : concepts, controversies, and themes / Ilona Roth -- Seven steps in the evolution of the human imagination / Steven Mithen -- Great ape cognition and the evolutionary roots of human imagination / Andrew Whiten and Thomas Suddendorf -- Memes, minds, and imagination / Susan Blackmore -- Autonomy and control in children's interactions with imaginary companions / Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson and Alison B. Smawber -- Imagination and testimony in cognitive development : the cautious disciple? / Paul L. Harris and Melissa Koenig -- Imagining things : mind into music (and back again) / Nicholas Cook -- Music, science, and culture / Ian Cross -- Claim on the reader / Gregory Currie -- Mental imagery and creative thought / David G. Pearson -- Way we imagine / Mark Turner -- Specialized inference engines as precursors of creative imagination? / Pascal Boyer -- Module for metaphor? : the site of imagination in the architecture of the mind / Daniel Nettle -- Autism and the imaginative mind / Ilona Roth -- Imaging imagination : brain scanning of the imagined future / John G. Geake and Morten L. Kringelbach. |
Series Title: | Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 147. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ilona Roth. |
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the reviews cover a wide range of standpoints with modesty and caution...In summary this fascinating book provides a comprehensive survey of a neglected and scientifically challenging field. It should help further research. * Alan Kerr Journal of Consciousness Studies * Read more...
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